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课件网) Unit 3 A day out Period 2 Reading This is the Gold Gate Bridge. A. Around the world in a day！ Linda comes from the USA. She is visiting her cousin Kitty. She went to the World Park with the Class 1, Grade 8 students yesterday. Here is Linda's email to her parents about the trip. Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine here. Yesterday Kitty's teacher Mr Wu invited me to join their school trip to the World Park. ① I enjoyed myself! 温馨提示：此符号表示“考点精讲点拨”链接。 统领全文法: 本句起总领下文的作用。后面接着就写了因何事而过得好。在写类似的短文时，常常需要类似的总领下文的句子。 It was a fine warm day. The sun was shining in a clear blue sky. ② The World Park is quite far away. ③ It took us about two hours to get there by bus. There was a lot of traffic on the way and the journey was a little boring. We finally arrived at the park. ④ All of us couldn’t wait to get off the bus. ⑤ Soon the whole world was there in front of us! ⑥ There are models of more than a hundred places of interest from all over the world. ⑦ They are small but wonderful. finally adv. 最后 final adj. 最后的 n.决赛 We became very excited when we saw the model Eiffel Tower. It is made of steel and is really tall. The model Golden Gate Bridge looked as great as the one back home. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was an amazing day because we saw the main sights of the world in just one day. The song and dance shows were also wonderful. We learnt a lot about different cultures. adv. mainly You can see some photos of the trip on the Internet. Kitty’s classmate Daniel put them on his home page. Go and see for yourselves! Love, Linda 分享是一种博爱的心境，学会分享就学会了生活。 B. A fun day out B1. Kitty wants to know the meanings of some words in Linda’s email. Help Kitty match the words on the left with the meanings on the right. Write the correct letters in the blanks. 1 join （line 2） 2 journey （line 6） 3 boring （line 6） 4 finally （line 7） 5 arrive at （line 7） 6 whole （line 8） 7 main （line 14） 8 sights （line 14） a full b get to a place c places of interest d take part in e not interesting f a long trip g after a long time h most important _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ d f e g b a h c B2. Kitty is trying to make some notes of the trip. Help her complete the notes below. Our school trip Date： （1） 10 October Place： （2）_____ Weather：（3）_____warm day （4） _____ sun and （5） _____ blue sky How to go： by （6） _____ About the park：models of more than (7)_____ places of interest from all over the world (8)_____ shows the World Park a fine the shining a clear bus a hundred the song and dance B3. Here are some descriptions of the school trip. Write a T if a sentence is true or an F if it is false. 1. Linda and Kitty went to the World Park by themselves. ⑧ _____ 2. Linda did not enjoy the day ve ... ...
